Digital workflow company ServiceNow today announced in a company press release it has signed an agreement to acquire Sweagle, a configuration data management company for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition will extend ServiceNow’s DevOps and IT Operations Management (ITOM) capabilities, giving customers the ability to leverage machine learning to identify and help prevent potential misconfigurations from causing outages in production and speeding up remediation.
Along with its DevOps and IT Operations Management Health solutions, Sweagle will help accelerate ServiceNow’s newly introduced Service Graph roadmap by managing configuration data for public and private cloud environments and modern application architectures, like microservices, containers, and serverless computing.
RJ Jainendra, vice president and general manager of DevOps and IT Business Management at ServiceNow explained what the combining of forces will mean by saying: “With capabilities for configuration data management from Sweagle, we will empower DevOps teams to deliver application and infrastructure changes more rapidly while reducing risk. Sweagle also brings deep DevOps talent to ServiceNow. Both founders are pioneers in configuration data management, and we are honored to have this talent join our team as we continue to help customers compete and win in a digital economy.”
Belgium-based configuration data management company Sweagle was founded in 2017 by CEO Mark Verstockt and CTO Benny Van de Sompele who’s mission is to get rid of bad configuration data in the application field and allow multiple people to make changes on the go.
Sweagle’s data management platform provides a single source of truth for configuration data that is otherwise spread across multiple tools which include data such as API keys, Java HeapSize, geo regions, hostnames, firewall settings, build numbers, and hotfixes to name a few.
ServiceNow’s acquisition of Sweagle comes at a time where businesses releasing updates to improve customer value such as DataRobot with their new AI features and TrackVia revealing new designs for their low-code app.
As organisations focus on delivering great experiences to employees and customers, they often navigate 50,000 or more configuration data items to make a single enterprise application work correctly. Sweagle allows customers to quickly deploy applications and infrastructure as code changes more frequently on a single data platform.
Now the two companies are operating under the same roof, ServiceNow customers will be able to identify and intercept application and infrastructure inconsistencies during agile development cycles.
“Today, configuration data is as important as having good code – and this is the foundation that Sweagle was built on,” said Mark Verstockt, CEO and co-founder of Sweagle. “We are proud to join ServiceNow as it continues to enable digital transformation and drive customer success. Every day something goes wrong in a company related to bad configuration data. Together, we can help customers deliver higher-quality applications without the need for manual work, all while reducing cost.”
ServiceNow expects to complete the acquisition at the beginning of Q3 2020.
